{"title":"Analysis on influencing factors of coal price in China","authors":"Zheng Kai, Cai Yun, Sun-Kyung Yi","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943361","url":null,"abstract":"The article identifies the factors that may have an impact on China's coal prices, including the supply and the demand, international coal price and the coal stocks, by processing and analyzing the CRTP China thermal coal price index data which is from January 2010 to October 2013. According to the results, the factors like international oil prices, import and export volume of coal have no significant effect on the price of coal. In the following part there is also some analyze about the impact of the related policies.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122770191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wang Ning-ning, Zhang Ya-jiao, Wang Xiao-huan, Fan Zhi-ping
{"title":"Channel coordination in logistics service supply chain under service integrator's fairness concerns","authors":"Wang Ning-ning, Zhang Ya-jiao, Wang Xiao-huan, Fan Zhi-ping","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943380","url":null,"abstract":"Logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is a new type of service supply chain, and research on channel coordination of LSSC has increasingly caught the attention in supply chain studies. Given the influence of fairness concern behavior, it is necessary to incorporate fairness concern into LSSC to discuss its effect on channel coordination. This paper examines the wholesale price contract under a two-echelon LSSC setting with stochastic demand from the perspective of LSI's fairness concerns. Two fairness models are established, that is, disadvantageous inequality aversion model and advantageous inequality aversion model. Moreover, a benchmark model is constructed without fairness concerns included. By deriving models and analyzing numerical experiments, several assumptions are justified. The contribution of this paper lies in twofold: first, a relative advantage status coefficient is introduced; second, a coordination scenario under a wholesale price contract is reached under a certain condition.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114428152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to improve the customer loyalty in the cosmetics industry","authors":"Tsung-ju Yang, Chun-Hung Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874105","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the market of the cosmetics industry is growing in the world. The cosmetics companies are constantly develop and marketing many cosmetics products for the consumers' demand. The competition in the cosmetics industry is increasing. However, the products knowledge of many cosmetics consumers was limited. How to obtain and maintain customer loyalty becomes an important challenge to the cosmetics industry. To understand the decision-making process of consumers will help the cosmetics companies to improve the customer relationships successfully and maintain their competitive advantage. Therefore, the study is to investigate the consumers' decision-making process from the important factor of brand, product, services and customer relationship management. The researchers establish a framework to study the relationship among brand image, product quality, service quality, relationship quality, and customer loyalty in cosmetics industry. The researchers use questionnaires method and use SPSS and AMOS statistical software to analysis the samples of the cosmetics consumers. The empirical results show that: first, brand image of the cosmetics positively impacts on both customer perceived product quality and service quality. Second, customer perceived product quality and service quality both positively impact on customers' relationship quality. Third, the customers' relationship quality has a positive effect on customer loyalty. The results show that the brand image of cosmetics helps to improve the customer perceived product quality, service quality and relationship quality, and then impact on customer loyalty. Therefore, improving brand image, product quality, service quality and relationship quality would improve customer loyalty in the cosmetics industry. The effects of antecedent variables on customer loyalty are different; therefore, understanding the decision-making process of customers' will help the cosmetics companies to manage customer relationship efficiently.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122083318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An approach to prioritize quality dimensions of IT enabled small service firms: A study of Indian SMEs","authors":"Rana Basu, P. Bhola","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874024","url":null,"abstract":"In today's globally competitive market it is important to adopt quality management principles not only for making profits but also for survival. In India small and midsized enterprises dictate market in terms of sheer number of organizations characterized by dynamics of entrepreneurial fortitude while suffered failure due to poor service quality. With rise of e-business introduced by ICT, service delivery of enterprises grew. However it is seen in practice that many IT projects have suffered missed deadlines, budget overruns, and unsatisfactory quality or unmet performances whereby organizations often go through frustrations and may have serious impact on their operations. In response to the context it is vital for small firms to adopt effective quality orientation approach. Taking scenario into consideration there is a need for deeper investigation to identify context specific dimensions of quality attributes pertaining to IT enabled Indian small service firms. This paper thus attempts to identify and prioritize quality management dimensions based on comprehensive compilation and subsequent analysis of literature followed by data collection and in-depth interview. Further, TOPSIS as multi criteria decision making technique has been deployed to prioritize the same. Paper provide rich conjectural understanding of antecedents to service ventures and start-up survivals which can provide entrepreneurial insights to service managers as well as entrepreneurs who can better apportion their scarce resources to build quality and scalability in an efficient and effective manner.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129840788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procurement under incomplete information about the supply disruption","authors":"Jie Xiang","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943379","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decade, disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and snowstorms happened frequently around the world, which greatly increased the risk of supply disruption. Meanwhile, the wide spread of outsourcing intensify this kind of risk. How to ensure the sustainability of supply has attracted extensive interesting from industry and academy, and numerous literature appeared. In this paper, we study the supply disruption management problem under incomplete information on disruption probability. Specifically, a manufacturer wants to buy a material facing a set of unreliable suppliers with the private information on the disruption probability of is information for every supplier. How to incentive the suppliers reveal their disruption is an important problem for the manufacturer to make a good purchase decision. A two-stage auction mechanism is designed to address this problem. In the first stage, each potential supplier bids a unit penalty if he can't deliver the order quantity. At the second stage, the manufacturer chooses the winners and places an order to the winners based on the unit penalty costs bid by the suppliers. We show that the mechanism can help the manufacturer get the suppliers' disruption information and make a right purchase decision under incomplete disruption information. Furthermore, we extend the model to the case including a spot market.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123365386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A mixed projects and securities portfolio selection and adjustment model","authors":"Xiao-Bo Huang, Yaqin Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874075","url":null,"abstract":"There exists the situation where a company may choose to invest the available capital in several large projects but may still leave a great amount of capital which is not enough for any other large project. To make full use of the available capital and get the maximum investment return, the company can not only invest in several large projects, but also make use of the remaining capital to invest in those securities with good liquidity. Hence, this paper discusses a mixed projects and securities selection and adjustment problem. And during the long investment horizon of the projects, the securities portfolio needs to be adjusted to match with the projects' outlays and the company's operating cash inflow, so as to achieve the maximum investment return and fully use the capital. To illustrate the idea and the application of our proposed model, a numerical example will be given.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121177452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of authentic leadership on employees' work engagement: A multilevel study in Chinese hospitality industry","authors":"Fang Liu, S. He, Yuling Tang, Xinfang Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874129","url":null,"abstract":"Although authentic leadership is becoming increasingly important in the organizational science literature, research testing the consequences of authentic leadership in Chinese hospitality context has not received great attention. To help address this need, the authors conducted an empirical study in 24 hotels in China to examine the effects of authentic leadership on employees' work engagement. The results of HLM analysis revealed that both individual-level and group-level authentic leadership were positively related to employees' work engagement. The relationship between individual-level authentic leadership and employees' work engagement was mediated by employees' perception of servant leadership and employees' trust in leaders. The relationship between group-level authentic leadership and employees' work engagement was mediated by group felt trust.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"17 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113993114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service quality of online shops and express impact on customer satisfaction — Under E-commerce environment","authors":"Liu Xiao-ping, Liu Mei-lu","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874099","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of the Internet, online shopping has become a symbol of the times. The delivery, as the most critical part is also developed rapidly. The study of the relationship between online shops, express delivery and customer satisfaction has become a hot topic. This article analyzed the impact of online shops and express service quality from the perspective of customer satisfaction, taking college students as the main study object, using structural equation model as well as SPSS and AMOS software to analyze relevant data. The results showed empirical support for 1)both the service quality of online shops and express have positive impact on customer satisfaction and 2) the correlation coefficient between online shop and express enterprise is relatively high, then some reference opinions are provided.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124096875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of government policies and market dynamics on new product performance in China","authors":"Jinsong Huang, Chongqing Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943402","url":null,"abstract":"The rate of new product failures kept high. Although many scholars had developed models to test the antecedents of new product performance, a few of them noticed the effect of the government innovation and market dynamics. The results of this paper showed that government innovation policies exerted a direct and marked effect on the process of new product development and product competitive advantage. Market dynamics did not have a significant effect on the new product development process, but it significantly had a negative impact on the competitive advantage of new products. The paper also showed that government innovation policies and market dynamics might affect different types of enterprise product competitive advantages. Government innovation policies were likely to influence various types of enterprises. The small private-owned manufacturing enterprises suffered the impact of government innovation policies and market dynamics prominently.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124188543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pricing strategy for perishable food considering consumer's fairness perception","authors":"Xiaohuan Wang, Li Hai, Zhi-Ping Fan","doi":"10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874114","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to develop a multi-period pricing strategy for perishable food under the consideration of consumers' fairness perception. Perishable food refers to food whose value are decreasing with time goes by, and might become even negative in some circumstance. Many companies and researchers realized that perishable food pricing is of great importance that would influence not only the direct revenues but also the consumers' satisfaction and retention in the long run, in addition to avoid extravagance. This paper comes up with a theoretical model and three hypotheses on the basis of food freshness and inventory availability. A laboratory experiment is designed and conducted within human subjects to justify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed theoretical model and the hypothesis. The experiment results justified: first, if the retailer adopted differential pricing strategy on the basis of the deteriorating rate and inventory availability, and set reasonable amplitude of price change, the consumers' price fairness perception in different selling seasons can be ensured; second, with the declining of perishable food's freshness and inventory availability, the higher average perception utilities and purchasing behaviors of consumers appears in different selling seasons towards the products with different values. The findings suggest that food retailers can enhance consumer satisfaction by offering a differential pricing strategy, and adopting step by step discounts performs better than the unchangeable fixed retail price. The findings in this study are significant since they serve as the first step in measuring discriminatory pricing and prove that it is feasible and workable in real life perishable food pricing context, and also provide better trade-offs between consumers' fairness perception and retailer's revenue in the long run.","PeriodicalId":206364,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126395815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}